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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1893)
The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia; No A!"-" Used in y<V':i of Homes—40 Years the Stair Tramps and bums are unusually nu merous just now. Wall paper 5 cents a roll at L. W. Mc Connell & Co.’s. This week, Will Huber sold his dwell ing house on the west side to J. E. Petty for a consideration of $800. The contract for the building <Jf the A. O. U. W. temple has been let to Mc Adams and Rooney for $23,480. The recent heavy rains have much im proved the out look for a hay crop. The crop prospects are good now for quite a good yield. No better evidence is required to prove that the farm is no place for a lazy man 'Lhan one look at a field of corn swallowed up in a dense jungle of weeds. The Tribune still insists that the greatest need of Red Willow cotinty is better farming. A short trip over the county is conclusive evidence. The only happy farmer is he who dili gently cultivated his corn, and let the other fellow do the grumbling. For veri ly the first man’s napie shall be plentj-— and the other shall be called pants. Since the re-arrangement, painting and papering of the interior of their store room, Messrs. Laycock and Sutton have ■oneofthe most convenient and metropoli tan appearing business places in the city. The merchants of the city have signed an agreement among themselves to close their places of business during the months of July and August at 8 o’clock, which is a very wise action to take, and will give the business men and their ■ clerks needed rest during the heated season, not inconveniencing the public to an appreciable extent either. Messrs. Lowman & Son are preparing to move their extensive carpet depart ment from the cellar to the second story of their business house. A spiral stair way of iron will communicate with it from the main store room. A steam heating apparatus will be put in, and other improvements will make their es tablishment a model of completeness and comfort. There is some talk of holding a horse fair and horse races at McCook, this fall, and The Tribune is of the opinion that such a project could be made a success financially and in every other respect. It is contemplated to offer liberal purses, and to absolutely guarantee their payment, which will draw hither swift horses from away, as well as from this entire section of the state. The project is a winning one, and we hope the matter may pro gress into a substantial and successful reality. Wall paper 5 cents a roll at L. W. Mc Connell & Co.’s. ESTABLISHED 1S85. The Largest Stock, The Choicest Styles and Best Goods at Lowest Prices AT. GANSHAW’S The Old Reliable Boot and Shoe Dealer. Northeast cor. Main and Dennison streets, McCook. * Will paper 5 cents a roll at L. W. Mc 'COWNELL & CO.’S. Wall paper 5 cents a roll at L. W. Me Connki.1. & Co.’S. The vexed water question is about to be settled for a term of years. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Allen were up from Indianola, Thursday, on matters of busi ness. Deacon Morlan is becoming quite an expert byker. Kyphosis has no terrors for him. Herman Fade was called down to In dianola, Wednesday, to preform a job of embalming. Call and inspect Kalstedt’s immense stock of new goods. The finest selection ever exhibited in the city. Don’t wait until the line is broken. J. F. Ganchow left on 6, last evening, for Ohio. He will be absent until the last of August, and will take in the great fair before his return home with the family. Bishop Graves of Kearney will hold services in the Lutheran church on next Sunday evening at the usual hour. He will be assisted by Rev. Durant, who has recently been named the permanent rector for this city. Edwin R. Buck, the five months old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Buck, died last evening at the family residence at 129 South Thirtieth street. The time for the funeral has not been fixed.— Thursday’s Lincoln Journal. Joseph Dudek of Red Willow precinct marketed 16 head of extra fine fat hogs in the city, yesterday morning, one of the number weighing 715 pounds. He has about 150 more on his farm, 90 head of which he expects to have ready for market in about six weeks. The members and friends of the Meth odist Sunday school indulged in a picnic in Dillon’s grove on the south side, yes terday. The trip out in the morning was slightly marred by a shower of rain, but it goes without the saying that a delight ful time was enjoyed by all. It is probable that the water works com pany will make an effort to secure an artesion well at this place, this summer. There have been some negotiations under way recently which may result in such an attempt being made. If so a well will be sunk a thousand feet at least as an experi ment. The agreement about to be closed be tween the city council and the water works company will give McCook one of the finest steel water towers in Nebraska and consequently a fine fire pressure. The tower is to be 85 feet high, 20 feet in diameter,and will be constructed of inch steel. Red Willow county has entered the epoch of frame house building, and the movement has extended all over the county, this summer: A Mr. Hunter, who lives 14 miles northwest of the city, and a man by the name of Nicholas, whose farm is about five miles northwest of town, are having comfortable homes built. Messrs. Kilpatrick & O’Neil are also putting up a dwelling house for George Poh out in Perry precinct. So the good work goes on. Barnett Lumber Co. of course furnished the lumber. Are you on to the new walk—the new gait—of the fashionable girl? The para grapher of the summer girl does not ap pear to have caught it, but it is here. It beats the Grecian bend or anything the girls have yet adopted as their own. It can be best described as a swagger. The head is moved from side to side, the shoulders and the whole body sway, giv ing exactly the motion a person apparent ly has who is standing sideways in a boat when the waves are rough. It is a foreign notion, introduced last season abroad, and the few fashionable women who are trying it on may think it beau tiful, but it isn't. It is technically called the “waggle.” R. L. Hileman, who is a consumer un der the Meeker ditch, left a sample of oats at this office, this week, which speaks well for his irrigation, al though the use and application of water from an irrigating ditch is an entirely new thing to him, and the ditch was not in operation as early in the spring as was desirable. The oats, Mr. Hileman in forms us, has a spendid stand, and aver ages from two and a half feet to four feet in height, and is heading out nicely, promising a fine yield. With his expe rience and knowledge gained this year Mr. Hileman expects much better results next season, which will doubtless be the the case with all the consumers along the ditch. A piano for sale. Apply to Mrs. T. G. Rees. Messrs. John Hart and Robert Doty of Wauneta were business guests, yesterday. The police run in a plain drunk, Tues day evening, for making himself too nu merous about Altshuler’s wet grocery house. _ Quarterly meeting will be held in the Methodist church on Sunday aweek. Presiding Elder Mastin will preach at that time. _ A local bicyclist insists that he stoops to conquer, and has no fear of Kyphosis and doesn’t care if he does look like the missing link. So there now! Look at the date of the printed address on your Tribune and if it isn’t right let us know. If it says you owe us some thing come up to the captain’s office and fix it up. Supt. Valentine of the city schools is absent in Fillmore county, instructing in the teacher’s institute being held in Ge neva. He has the topic of Didactics and kindred subjects. “A man may smile and smile and be a villain still,” but this is no sign that every man you meet who wears a smile is a rascal. He may prove upon investi gation to be only a candidate for a po sition at one of the desks in the court house. The Tribune wishes to congratulate the people of West McCook over their prospect for an early extension of the water system to that portion of the city. It will be a large benefit in the matter of health, comfort and convenience, and will add a distinct value to real estate in that locality. Among the new patents is one to hold runaway horses. It is fixed under the driver’s seat, the buckled end of the reins passing through it. By a movement of his right hand the driver can start the revolving motion which tighten the reins to any extent. “The Ready” the ma chine has been named. The water works company expects to spend about $15,000 in the improvements now contemplated on the plant. These improvements, together with the work which the workmen expect to commerce on their temple, Monday if the materials ordered arrive in time, will give McCook quite a boost during these dull times, and will provide labor for many laborers who would otherwise be idle. Safe deposit boxes are the proper re ceptacles of bonds and other valuables, but greenbacks and currency are out of place in them. There never was any thing but foolish fear to justify their use for this purpose; aud as this fear has vanished, it is now in order to relieve them of such contents and put the cash into the banks, where it will be quite as safe and will do much more good. The Methodist brethren are already preparing for the entertainment of the one hundred and fifty preachers who are expected to attend the conference meet ing to be held in McCook, this fall. The city has been subdivided and committees appointed to canvas them at once to secure pledges from those who can and will en tertain delegates to the conference dur ing the week’s session. A generous hos pitality will no doubt be extended. Since last Monday a week the where abouts of Contractor U. C. Killebrew have been unknown, much to the regret of sundry creditors in the city. About $400 of his checks recently issued on the Wauneta bank have been protested. A few of them were cashed by McCook merchants, who will consequently lose the amounts paid, besides their accounts. Parties for whom he has been doing work in the line of contracting unless protected by good and sufficient bonds, will likely be at considerable loss. His action is re gretted and is in a measure hard to ac count for. His family is still in the city. Here’s a seasonable item: When flies become troublesome in a house or room, they can always be expeled by a very simple mixture. A half teaspoonful of black pepper finely ground, should be mixed with double the quantity of brown sugar, and the compound to be moistened with cream. The flies will generally eat greedily of this mixture if placed where they can easily reach it, but it will be their last meal, for the least taste of it is to a fly rank poison. If watched they will often be seen to drop dead within a few feet of the place which they had just left, and some of the healthiest eaters do not live to leave the plate.—Ex. A rumor softly crept up from Indiano la, Monday, to the effect that the First National Bank of McCook had closed its doors. President Hocknell promptly offered a reward of $500 for the name of the author of the villainous lie, but the scamp’s name could not be secured. Some persons think the rumor may have resulted from the error in last week’s In dependent Enterprise. At all events the report is a lie, pure and simple, out of the whole cloth. The First National Bank of McCook is as firm as the Rock of Gibraltar, financially, and has not the slightest fear of a run on it. It is amply able, too, to stand any possibly strain which may come upon it In fact there isn’t a banking establishment in the state in any better condition. We may boast that all of McCook’s banking houses are in splendid shape. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS. The temperance program which was to have been given, Sunday evening the 16th, has been postponed for a few weeks. It was found impossible to make adequate preparation for it in the sfiort time re maining, and as the C. E. never do any thing by halves, it was thought best to put it off until it was complete in every detail. Miss Grace Tobert will lead the meet ing, Sunday evening, the subject being “God’s Great Command.” If you go away from this meeting feeling that it has been rather a failure, ask yourself whether you have helped to make it a success, and if you havn’t, just blame yourself for the whole failure. Let each one come resolved to try with all their might to make it the best meeting we have yet had. About one hundred pastors of Boston and vicinity gave President Clark a hearty and royal welcome from his around-the-world trip. Such meetings as these, without any denominational bias, are but a sample of the way in which he has been welcomed all over the world and tend to show the strong hold the movement has upon the people the world over. The one great thing about the Chris tian Endeavor is that it is adapted to all kinds and conditions of men. There are twenty societies among the sailors, called Floating Societies of Christian Endeavor. Of these nine are on the steamships, several of which are on ocean liners. We believe it could even affiliate with the democratic clubs of the country, under certain conditions of course. A Prolonged Session. The city fathers held a prolonged ses sion, Wednesday night, Mayor Brewer, Councilmen McAdams, Yarger, Spickel mier, Steinmetz, Clerk Waren, Attorney Rittenhouse being in attendance. Bills as follows were allowed. F. M. Kimmell, printing.$ 5 00 C. P. Viland, salary June. 5000 Joseph Spotts, salary June. 45 00 George Roper, copying. 1 50 McCook Electric Light Co. 170 50 John Shepherd, labor. 2 30 Clark & Bowen, livery. 3 00 A. E. McManigal, salary June... 60 30 Thomas Devitt, salary June. 36 So Gray & Marsh, meal tickets. 8 00 Bill of J. A. Cordeal was laid over. Reports of H. H. Berry, cemetery su perintendent, and police judge, were read and referred to the finance com mittee. But the principal business of the ses sion was the settlement of the water question. The agreement arrived at by the council and the water company pro vides for an extension of mains over to west McCook, 2,100 feet of four inch mains; a steel stand pipe 85 feet high and 20 feet in diameter; 32 fire hydrants at $50 per annum; the lawn rate is to be $10 per tap; the street sprinkler shall cost $100 per year, and each additional wagon at the same rate as two hydrants; water ing troughs $50 each; it provides for fire hydrants every 400 feet on all additional mains ordered, at the rate of $50 per an num; all regular licensed plumbers under $1,000 bond will be allowed to do work on the system; the water rates will re main as at present, except saloons, plast ering, billiard saloons, meter rates—none less than $10 per annum; the contract holds for eight years, and revision may be made in 6 j-ears. The council adjourn ed until Saturday night, when an ordi nance will be passed in accordance with the above agreement, and a contract will then be entered into as the ordinance shall provide. WORKMAN WORDS. Stores will be ready to occupy about Oct. 1st, 1S93. In connection with the Workman building it is pleasant to note the contract was secured by the town people, as this will insure work for our mechanics for a number of months. About $25,000 will be expended for la bor and materials, which at this dull season comes very opportune to all con cerned. McCook Lodge 61 can well congratu late itself on its prosperity and ability to handle such a project, as there have been very few attempts by A. O. U. W. lodges to own their own buildings, and that only in the largest cities. Members of the order regret the lack of interest shown by outsiders in not subscribing sufficient stock to have added the opera house. Next Monday evening will be quite in teresting to members of No. 61, A. O. U. W. Several visiting members will be present to entertain those who come out. Wall paper 5 cents a roll at L. W. Mc CONNBLL & CO.’S.' A Slight Error Corrected. Editor Tribune:—As you have plac ed my daughter’s name before the'public I think it is due her to correct the state ment given in last week’s paper which infers that she married a man with whom she was unacquainted. She has known him for five years, for he lived in the same town with us, and we knew him to be a man of good reputation. Mrs. Heist. Wall paper 5 cents a roll at L. W. Mc Connell & Co.’s. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report PEOPLE YOU KNOW. A. J. Clute is in Chicago on a visit. Mrs. J. H. O’Neil is visiting in Chats worth, Illinois. E. C. Ballew accompanied his wife to St. Joe last night. . County Supt. Bayston is in the city, today, on business of his office. Captain R. O. Phillips was a business visitor in this city, Wednesday. J. M. Sewell, the grain merchant, came up from Hastings on business, Monday. J. W. Dolan was a business visitor, Friday evening, from the county-capital. A. R. Wilson was a guest at the Capital hotel, Lincoln, Friday and Saturday last. Judge Welty and daughter of Cam bridge were Commercial house guests, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Weygint left on 6, Wednesday, on a visit to Chicago and the fair. Miss R. A. Van Dusen of Arapahoe is the guest of May and Ethel Howard of our city. C. S. Quick and familjr of Indianola were up on a shopping expedition, Monday. Miss Kittie Bowen left for Galesburg, Illinois, Monday evening. She will also visit the fair. Miss Norma Noble arrived home, last Friday, from a two month’s visit in Iowa and at the fair. J. P. A. Black, the Bloomington law yer, was here on business of his profes sion, Monday. W. S. Morlan expects shortly to go to the mountains on a month's absence hunting and fishing. H. W. Cole arrived home, Tuesday night, from his visit to Geneseo, Illinois, and to the World’s fair. Miss Hattie Yager of Hastings is the guest of Mrs. A. C. Clyde. She is on her way to the mountains. W. R. Starr of Indianola exhibited his Paderewski-like locks to the people of the metropolis, Monday. Representative Sheridan, “Our Genial Ike,” mingled with the busy throng in the chief city, Saturday. Captain R. O. Phillips came in from Lincoln, Friday night, and spent Satur day here on company business. Miss Evans came up from Furnas county, Tuesday noon, and is the guest of her sister Mrs. W. S. Morlan. Mr. and Mrs. Ami Teel of Indianola on the classic Coon creek were business guests of the metropolis, Saturday. Rev. A. H. Bartlett is up in Frontier county looking after his farm interests. He will be absent until after harvest. Rev. James Lisle of Indianola was uo, Wednesday- evening, on business connect ed with the coming Methodist conference. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Easterday, who have been spending a few weeks at the old home in Tecumseli, arrived home on Saturday night. Mrs. E. C. Ballew left, yesterday, for her home in Missouri on an extended visit. She expects also to visit the fair during her absence. Mr. and Mrs. \V. G. Bartlett came over from Stockville, last Friday. We under stand that Mrs. Bartlett has a class in painting in our city. Mrs.W.C. LaTourette and the children arrived home from Missouri, Monday night. George was somewhat improved by his visit, we learn. M. Leach has been up from Lincoln, this week, on business connected with the A. O. U. W. temple, of which he is the architect and designer. Mrs. J. B. Meserve and Miss Edna de parted, Thursday, for Chicago. They will also visit other points in Illinois and wall be absent a month or two. Charlie McConnell was a passenger, Wednesday evening, for Chicago. He will also visit at his old home in Virginia, Illinois, and will be away a few weeks. J. H. Ager, who officiates effectively in the political affairs of the Lincoln Jour nal, spent a few hours among the boys, Monday, in these political headquarters for the upper Republican Valley. A. E. Baker departed for Chicago, last week. After viewing the sights at the seat of wonder for a few weeks he will visit in New York city. From there he will go to his home in London. Sixty Dollars Will buy a complete set of the peerless Encyclopedia Britannica, bound in ele gant half seal. If you mean business call at this office promptly. An unknown individual was slugged and robbed of $27 in a South McCook dive, last night. I Painting Lessons. I am prepared to give lessons in oil, pastel and water colors at C. T. Beggs' residence west of the Catholic church. 50 cents a lesson. Mrs. W. G. Bartlett. Coleman Precinct. Corn is about laid by. Baxter Davis was cutting wheat, Thurs day. Mr. Aulricht was cutting fall wheat, Tuesday. William Nichlascut rye for M. H. Cole last Saturday. Corn is looking fine, but small for this season of the year. Frank Caruthers was chasing a wolf one day recently. J. Betz rides the cultivator in driving cows out of his com. Fruit trees of all kinds have made a splendid growth this season. John and Dallas Divine have gone to Illinois to be absent some time. Wm. Nichlas is hauling out lumber for his new house. It is 24x26 feet in size and fourteen foot posts. There was a Smith re-union recently at the residence of Mr. J. W. Smith, where a grand jolly good time was had. The Sabbath school at the Coleman school house joined in with the M. E. Sabbath school of McCook in the picnic. Thursday. Wm. Coleman is out almost every day showing the country to land seekers. Those having land to sell should see him at once. The new church in the western part of this precinct will be dedicated to the worship of God on next Sabbath. A cor dial invitation is extended to all. A.W. Otis and I. Smith of Perry, Iowa, were in McCook, Saturday. They re ported to “ye scribe” that the corn from Omaha to Crete was not quite so good as in Iowa, but from Crete west the com was better than in Iowa. Mr. Traphagan purchased a fine quar ter section, all smooth, erected a house on the same and broke out eighty acres, and planted it to crop. Thus the buffalo grass is being turned over and brought under cultivation and there is little doubt but drouth will have but little effect on crops when the buffalo grass is gone; and if each farmer will do as Mr. Traphagan. the buffalo grass will be a thing of the past in a very short time. While we are suffering with dry hot weather our friends in Iowa are suffering a deeper affliction. Let those who’ are' inclined to complain at the weather read the following: “IOWA’S DEATH ROLL.” The (lead number sixty-three with fif teen fatally injured. “Fort Dodge, Iowa, July ioth:—The death roll of the fearful tornado of Thurs day evening in this section of northwest ern Iowa has been made up. The dead number sixty-three and the injured many scores, of whom at least fifteen and possi bly twenty will almost certainly die. The property loss is estimated at $250,000. The scene of the worst desolution is Pom eroy, where the dead numbered, forty four and the injured 108. In the city hall the worst of the injured lie and the sights are terrible. Every dwelling in the place now standing has from two to eight injured constantly under care. Physicians and nurses are needed badly. Ten physicians are all that are here today and calls cannot be promptly answered. The neighboring cities and towns are pro - viding nurses liberally, but more are needed. Seventeen of the dead were buried yesterday and today twenty more were laid away. The deviatation in Pomeroy was frightful, yesterday, horses, cattle and other animals lay dead in the streets and at places human blood was seen. Not a bush on the other side of the rail road was left standing. When the storm appeared people became panic stricken, ran out of their houses and fled up the streets crying and shouting till struck by timbers or whirling trees. The destruc tion is so complete that hundreds of what were happy families are now broken up and are homeless and destitute." What a fearfully, awful sight that must have been. Friends and neighbors with their families, house and home with all the home ties and tender and endearing memories of home swept away in a mo ment. Father comes home from town to find his dear wife and sweet children cold in death, his house buildings and stock all blown away and crops all de stroyed. It is heart sickening to think of and we close the curtains contented to stand a little hot weather.
